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I lurch forward and press my fingers into Emily’s neck, thinking the

worst.

When I feel her pulse, I almost get dizzy with relief.

However, it’s weak and her skin feels clammy.

I reach up and push her hair off her pale face so I can see her more

clearly.

Her eyes are open, but staring dully, sightlessly at nothing.

“Emily!” I say, more loudly this time, trying to jolt her out of

whatever this is.

When that doesn’t work, I try saying her name again, even louder,

and give her shoulders a gentle shake.

She doesn’t respond, remaining limp and listless beneath my

hands.

Has she gone into some kind of catatonic state?

But why?

She was furious when I left her, not scared.

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What the hell could have caused this in the short few hours I left

her here?

My stomach is churning with anxiety as I lift her out of the tight

space.

She still doesn’t stir, and I cradle her gently in my arms as I hurry upstairs to her room.

Luckily, I don’t see anyone else on the way.

I don’t want anyone to see Emily like this.

think she would hate it if she knew, but also because she would worry people would see her as more broken and fragile than

could never think

go through something like what happened to her when she was abducted

it made her

did, and I respect her for that, if nothing else.

I take her into her room and

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do with

whatever this is.

her with a spray of cold

her down on the bed,

softest blanket I

the bed and wrap her up in the blanket,

my chest and holding her

I tell her in a low, quiet voice. “You’re

got you.”

her just a little tighter, wondering what the hell I’m going to do if she doesn’t

Worse.

to me if she doesn’t snap out

sister in a catatonic state

looking after

keep holding her, and after a while, I start humming some

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quite proficient at playing

had been. Back then, there hadn’t

ar

a musical instrument, or play chess, or read

with smart phones or tablets or computers with their infinite

today didn’t realize how quickly and

world had come

were the only source of

a few short decades, technology

people’s lives

how long I’d lived and all the

things I’d seen.

a bottomless well of

escape from.

than anything that I had someone

those

is immortal like

in my weaker moments

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